Armed Forces: Mental Illness

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  how many and what percentage of armed forces personnel who have served in  (a) Iraq and  (b) Afghanistan have been diagnosed with a mental health condition;
	(2)  how many service personnel who have served in  (a) Afghanistan since 2001 and  (b) Iraq since 2003 his Department has recorded as having a mental health condition of each type in each year since 2001.

Kevan Jones: holding  answer  3 February 2009
	Since July 2007 the Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) organisation has reported on the Psychiatric Morbidity of the UK armed forces. Quarterly reports for the whole of 2007 are available to view both in the Library of the House and on the DASA website at:
	www.dasa.mod.uk
	Equivalent verified data prior to 2007 is not available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	The morbidity report shows the number of new attendances at military Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs) during each quarter and the results of the initial mental health assessment. The figures shown in the following table are extracted from the morbidity report and show initial assessments of mental disorder broken down by operational deployment for the calendar year 2007.
	
		
			  I nitial mental disorder assessments in 2007: ICD-10 groupings by deployment 
			   Deployment:  theatres of operation  
			   Iraq and/or Afghanistan( 1)  Iraq  Afghanistan( 1)  Not known( 2) 
			  ICD-10 description  Patients seen  Patients seen  Patients seen  Patients seen 
			 All patients seen 2,562 2,178 464 271 
			  
			 All patients assessed with a mental disorder 1,898 1,725 375 155 
			  
			 Psychoactive substance use 216 198 38 13 
			 disorders due to alcohol(3) 150 140 27 8 
			 Mood disorders 395 365 57 34 
			 Depressive episode 314 288 51 33 
			 Neurotic disorders 1,188 1,071 265 86 
			 PTSD 145 124 48 6 
			 Adjustment disorders 705 639 148 31 
			 Other mental and behavioural disorders 99 91 15 22 
			  
			 No mental disorder 501 451 89 116 
			 No assessment details 163 147 37 0 
			 (1) Does not include personnel deployed to Afghanistan during the period January 2003 to October 2005. (2) Records supplied without identifiers. (3) Data for disorders due to use of alcohol is not available for the period January—March 2007. 
		
	
	DASA's statistics show that the total number of new patients assessed with a mental health disorder during their first appointment at MOD's out-patient DCMHs during 2007 is 19.9 per 1,000 strength of the armed forces, or 1.99 per cent. This figure covers all patients, including those who had not deployed operationally. Of the 190,400 regular members of the armed forces in service on 1 January 2008, 56 per cent. had previously deployed on operations to Iraq, Afghanistan or both theatres.

Peacekeeping Operations

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  what the cost of operations in Iraq, broken down on the same basis as note 2.3 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2007-08, was in  (a) 2002-03 and  (b) 2003-04;
	(2)  what the cost of operations in Afghanistan, broken down on the same basis as note 2.3 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2007-08, was in each financial year from 2001-02 to 2003-04.

John Hutton: The costs for Afghanistan in 2001-02 were not compiled in the format now used in our annual reports and cannot be reproduced on the same basis. The major cost areas for that year were:
	
		
			   £ million 
			 Resource expenditure 187 
			 Capital expenditure 34 
			 Total 211 
		
	
	The breakdown of costs in 2002-03 and 2003-04 for Iraq and Afghanistan is:
	
		
			  £ million 
			   2002-03  2003-04 
			   Iraq  Afghanistan  Iraq  Afghanistan 
			 Service pay 30 17 196 10 
			 Civilian pay 5 12 18 1 
			 Infrastructure costs 53 8 75 5 
			 Stock consumption 170 33 115 4 
			 Equipment support costs 161 128 284 9 
			 Other costs and services 134 32 209 6 
			 Receipts and other income 3 (6) 9 1 
			 Total direct resource Del 556 224 906 36 
			 Stock Provisions/Write off 0 0 0 0 
			 Provisions (27) o (5) 0 
			 Depreciation 100 4 132 0 
			 Cost of capital 1 0 18 0 
			 Total indirect resource Del 74 12 145 0 
			 Total capital Del 218 75 260 10 
			 Total all DELs 848 311 1,311 46